Interior Designers of Canada (IDC) held its annual awards celebration on Nov. 7, 2024, at the historic Carlu in downtown Toronto, Ont.
The IDC Awards Celebration honoured winners of the 2024 Value of Design Awards (VODA), the Innovation in Design Thinking Student Competition, recipient of the Legacy Award for Distinguished Service, and the Innovation Awards for IDC industry partners.
There were 9 winning projects in the Innovation in Design Thinking Student Competition by students across Canada.
Vancouver, B.C.-based Kasian Principal and IDC Past President, Sally Mills, received the IDC Legacy Award for Distinguished service.
This year, 12 projects were awarded IDC’s coveted Value of Design Awards. These awards, which launched in 2018, shine a spotlight on Canadian interior designers by providing a forum to showcase the benefits of design thinking: an empathetic, inventive, and iterative process focused on the human experience within interior spaces.
The 2024 Value of Design Awards were presented to the following winners who continue to deliver exception interior design work.
Value of Design Award – Excellence
‘BDP Quadrangle Studio’ by Marcella Au / BDP Quadrangle in Innovation in Workplace Design (Toronto, ON)
‘Centennial College A-Building Expansion’ by Chen Cohen, Camille Ganuelas, Mel Faifman / DIALOG in collaboration with Smoke Architecture in Innovation in Institutional/Educational/Civic Design (Toronto, ON)
‘Conestoga College Cowan Centre for Medical Sciences and Biotechnology’ by Valerie Gow / Gow Hastings Architects in Innovation in Institutional/Educational/Civic Design (Kitchener, ON)
‘Duke’s Castle Barbershop’ by Shima Radfar, Bahar Zaeem / RZ Interiors in Innovation in Hospitality Design (Aurora, ON)
‘Gan Shalom Preschool’ by Elizabeth Ormonde / Turner Fleischer in Innovation in Design Thinking (Toronto, ON)
‘Menkes Head Office’ by Tamara Poyato-Rooks, Suzanne Wilkinson, Simon Tibbo, Anna-Lisa Frank / Figure3 in Innovation in Workplace Design (Toronto, ON)
Value of Design Award – Merit
‘Innovation Clinic – Dr. Mario Luc’ by Véronique Chayer / Folio Design in Innovation in Healthcare Design (Laval, QC)
‘L’Île Mystérieuse’ by André Davignon / FOR. design planning in Innovation in Hospitality Design (La Malbaie, QC)
‘StellarAlgo’ by Jaime Holland / Holland Licensed Interior Design Inc. in Innovation in Workplace Design (Calgary, AB)
Value of Design Award – Honourable Mention
‘Habitat by Aeon Showroom’ by Jenn Mehrer / McKinley Studios in Innovation in Retail Design (Vancouver, B.C.)
‘Serein Headquarters’ by Jenn Mehrer / McKinley Studios in Innovation in Workplace Design (Vancouver, B.C.)
‘Yorkville Earls Restaurant + Bar’ by Joanna Kado, Leanne Babcook, and Elly Chronakis / Earls Restaurants in Innovation in Hospitality Design (Toronto, ON)
The event was presented by Benjamin Moore, Teknion, and Neolith + Ciot. Additional program sponsors included 3M, Blum, Crown Surface Solutions, Euro Tile and Stone, Global Upholstery Co. Inc., Hanstone Canada, Keilhauer, Kohler, Marbella, Metro Wallcoverings, Mohawk Group, Nienkamper, Prolink, Rockfon, Torlys Smart Floors, and Ya Fabrica.
Design firms Bullock + Wood Design and CIBC also sponsored this year’s event. Supporters included Azure, Elite Exhibitions, International Property Awards, and DesignTO.
